My Angry Rant to Adults:
Adults, parents, and teachers never understand the point of getting to know the children around them, because that is all they are, children. I’m a teenager, so I must be the same as every other teenager on the planet; I probably have the same values, ideas, beliefs, struggles, and thoughts as them, am I right? My “little” teenage problems do not matter in the big picture, because everyone has the same ones. The adults in my life, they don’t want to hear it. I’m just another kid; I’m barely old enough to count; barely even a real human yet, so I must not know a thing.
Adults are far too quick to lump us adolescents together in one universal category of “bad-mouthing, disrespectful, dumb as dirt teenager” – The stoners, the bandies, the jocks and the over-achievers. We are all just hormone-crazed, party animal, unintelligent kids’ right? We are barely even there. The adults believe we do not want to listen to them, but I have found out it is them who do not want to listen to us. Us, with our teenage voices, and their thoughts too loud; we get drowned out.
In my opinion, our generations of teens are smarter than half the adult population. They grew up in a time where you could live without fear when riding your bike down a city street. Mothers stayed at home and raised their kids; they did not work. People spoke of morals and religion. Front doors were left unlocked into the hours of the night, and MTV was for ages 18 and up. Teachers cared about their students, and no one knew what heroin was.
We, teens, are growing up in a world none of them could have fathomed; an almost opposite world to the one they grew up in; filled with drugs, rape, shady business, unsafe streets and chaos. We are conditioned to be able to handle these things though, therefore, having a greater understanding.
Because of the world we grew up in, teens are stronger, and understand aspects of life we had to learn in order to grow at a very young age. So what if we don’t know the cosine of 90 degrees, or the year that Ben Franklin was born, that doesn’t make us lesser, or stupid. Maybe if the adults would open their ears and listen, they would know that too.
DoWeReallyMatter? • May 8, 2019 at 8:03 pm
I agree, adults like to categorize us and if we don’t fit their image of a perfect son/daughter/other we get ignored, shunned or straight up screamed at for not being what they want us to be. Even if we are younger, it does not give an adult the right to treat us like garbage. Everyone wants to talk about the rights of Men and other things along those lines, but not yet have I heard a word of someone trying to stand up for us. It isn’t fair that just because of our age we are ignored and treated as kinder gardeners. My father put me in an acute hospital because I was disobeying him. Once I was there I learned that my dad actually knew one of the nurses and wanted to control what she did with me. I miss her because she was one of the few adults that actually understood that my dad is an ass and wants to constantly be in control. My dad noticed my change in behavior when I refused to talk with him, so he transferred me to another hospital, and his reason was because he couldn’t control me there at the hospital i was in before.
Then we have that irritating phrase “When I was your age” or something along those lines. Well guess what, its 2019 not 19–, grow up and get with the times.